The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.

Re: The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.

Interesting. So I went and took a look at Brazil TODAY. Here is a bit of what I found:

Recent reliable estimates on the total number of prostitutes are not available. In the late 1990s, the International Encyclopedia of Sexuality quoted police estimates putting the total number of prostitutes in Brazil at about 1,000,000.[3]

The Federal Police estimates that upward of 250,000 children are involved in prostitution.[4] According to the recently released Protection Project report, various official sources agree that from 250,000 to 500,000 children live as child prostitutes. Other sources in Brazil put the number at up to 2,000,000 children.[5]

Re: The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.

So then just for the heck of it I went to look at S. America age of consent today lol. Looks like Colonial America.

Here is the bit about Brazil, TONS more at the link:

Brazil

In Brazil, the age of consent is 14, regardless of gender and/or sexual orientation, with a judicial precedent showing that a close-in-age exception that allows those aged 12 and 13 to engage in sexual activity with partners who are 5 years older or less is legal, although not legally formalized

Re: The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.

OP I understand and agree but realize the average life exptancy was 40 in the 1880’s.

This means If you had a child at the age of 22 you would not see you childs 18th birthday on average.

Quoting: Chrit

"Average life expectancy" includes infant/childhood mortality, and women who died in childbirth, which was/is extremely high in societies without modern medicine, such as the 1880s.

Average age of death *for people who reached adulthood* was not 40. Assuming you could reach adulthood (and not die in childbirth) you could expect to live about as long as people live now without medical intervention (into your 80s or so).

Re: The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.

OP I understand and agree but realize the average life exptancy was 40 in the 1880’s.

This means If you had a child at the age of 22 you would not see you childs 18th birthday on average.

Quoting: Chrit

"Average life expectancy" includes infant/childhood mortality, and women who died in childbirth, which was/is extremely high in societies without modern medicine, such as the 1880s.

Average age of death *for people who reached adulthood* was not 40. Assuming you could reach adulthood (and not die in childbirth) you could expect to live about as long as people live now without medical intervention (into your 80s or so).

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2119053

In a way your are correct, my grandmother was one of 18 if I rememebr right. Only 6 made it past the age of 18. Those 6 all made it in to their 80's but you still married out at a very young age.

I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw.

We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three.

Re: The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.

So then just for the heck of it I went to look at S. America age of consent today lol. Looks like Colonial America.

Here is the bit about Brazil, TONS more at the link:

Brazil

In Brazil, the age of consent is 14, regardless of gender and/or sexual orientation, with a judicial precedent showing that a close-in-age exception that allows those aged 12 and 13 to engage in sexual activity with partners who are 5 years older or less is legal, although not legally formalized

Re: The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.

Interesting. So I went and took a look at Brazil TODAY. Here is a bit of what I found:

Recent reliable estimates on the total number of prostitutes are not available. In the late 1990s, the International Encyclopedia of Sexuality quoted police estimates putting the total number of prostitutes in Brazil at about 1,000,000.[3]

The Federal Police estimates that upward of 250,000 children are involved in prostitution.[4] According to the recently released Protection Project report, various official sources agree that from 250,000 to 500,000 children live as child prostitutes. Other sources in Brazil put the number at up to 2,000,000 children.[5]

So then just for the heck of it I went to look at S. America age of consent today lol. Looks like Colonial America.

Here is the bit about Brazil, TONS more at the link:

Brazil

In Brazil, the age of consent is 14, regardless of gender and/or sexual orientation, with a judicial precedent showing that a close-in-age exception that allows those aged 12 and 13 to engage in sexual activity with partners who are 5 years older or less is legal, although not legally formalized

Re: The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.

Yup. Around 10 (or more usually, 12) is when puberty starts -- NATURE'S age of consent. The idea of the age of consent being 18 is a purely modern creation, based on the fiction that people between the age of puberty and 18 are not sexual.

Re: The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.

Marriage is the way of the Lord. Anyone who strays from it is unforgiven. The only legal sex is married sex.Sex is an unforgivable sin.It is blasphemy against the Law of God , Thus its blasphemy against God.

The only one that can grant a marriage is the Lamb of God , aka Lord.No Church minister or other wisemen can do so.

Dont you people understand the word of God?God said the Taking of a virgin by a man makes the cause of natural marriage. Thus a man must take a virgin forcefully.This saves the woman's soul by natural marriage.

A woman can not give up her virginity willingly or she is doomed to hell.A man is doomed to hell anyway. for laying with his own mother at birth.

Re: The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.

Some girls reach puberty by 11 or 12 these days.

How can you ARGUE WITH NATURE?

Sorry. Sucks for you. But it's reality. Age of consent throughout history has always been lower than it's set in the U.S. We're awfully puritan about it here.

I'm not saying a girl that young should get pregnant -- I don't think any woman should have children and if she does, she should have ONE child after being married for at least two or three years. Stability -- something most of these unwed mothers never considered.

Quoting: Super Bowl Dave

Totally agree - these days kids start much earlier with this type of stuff, because it's also being pushed on them by their "idols".

Back then, when life expectancy wasn't nearly what we have now, people died in their 30's or 40's, it was important and normal for them to marry and have children at 13-15, a girl menstruating the first time meant she was ready to have a child (marriage happened even before then, much earlier)

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19693861

Touchy subject.

This is probably the most pertinent post. Things were very different at that time. Families and communities were much more close knit units than they are today and life expectancy was a major issue.

OP, have you ever been to a cemetery from that time? It is eye opening, from a historical standpoint.

The industrial age that followed changed that. You can see the same dynamic in today's world with the technological age.

Attempting to apply today's social values to people at various times and cultures in history is a losing proposition. They were working within their limitations, to put it simply.

Does that make okay in today's society? No, life expectancy is no longer the dominant issue.

Re: The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.

Marriage is the way of the Lord. Anyone who strays from it is unforgiven. The only legal sex is married sex.Sex is an unforgivable sin.It is blasphemy against the Law of God , Thus its blasphemy against God.

The only one that can grant a marriage is the Lamb of God , aka Lord.No Church minister or other wisemen can do so.

Dont you people understand the word of God?God said the Taking of a virgin by a man makes the cause of natural marriage. Thus a man must take a virgin forcefully.This saves the woman's soul by natural marriage.

A woman can not give up her virginity willingly or she is doomed to hell.A man is doomed to hell anyway. for laying with his own mother at birth.

For God is a jealous God.

And you suckers believe a church ,or synagogues of the devil.

Quoting: TSWB21

Jesus has the power to forgive every sin .In God's eye sin is sin no sin is more horrible than the other in God's eyes

Re: The age of consent in many states of the USA was just TEN by the year 1885.

Marriage is the way of the Lord. Anyone who strays from it is unforgiven. The only legal sex is married sex.Sex is an unforgivable sin.It is blasphemy against the Law of God , Thus its blasphemy against God.

The only one that can grant a marriage is the Lamb of God , aka Lord.No Church minister or other wisemen can do so.

Dont you people understand the word of God?God said the Taking of a virgin by a man makes the cause of natural marriage. Thus a man must take a virgin forcefully.This saves the woman's soul by natural marriage.

A woman can not give up her virginity willingly or she is doomed to hell.A man is doomed to hell anyway. for laying with his own mother at birth.

For God is a jealous God.

And you suckers believe a church ,or synagogues of the devil.

Quoting: TSWB21

Jesus has the power to forgive every sin .In God's eye sin is sin no sin is more horrible than the other in God's eyes